Old Montreal Ghost Walking Tour: Spine-Chilling History

Discover the spine-chilling history of Old Montreal on a ghost walking tour. Explore haunted sites, learn about ghosts, crime, and witchcraft, and experience the darker side of Montreal’s past.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Old Montreal - Follow your guide, an expert storyteller and a professional actor, through Old Montreal to discover haunted places where Montreal’s dark, gruesome history unfolds.
  • Bonsecours Market (Marche Bonsecours) - The itinerary of this themed tour will take you in different streets and alleys of Old Montral, from Places Royale to Bonsecours Market. As you explore the city streets in search of notorious criminals and villains, you’ll hear fascinating stories about crimes, hangings, fires, witchcraft and mysterious phenomena that stump even ghost experts. Fascinating tales await you!
What's Included
  • Local guide
  • 1.5-hour ghost tour
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop off
Additional Information

Montreal, a city rich with centuries of history, is not short of eerie occurrences. Embark on a riveting nocturnal journey into a different facet of Old Montreal, accompanied by a local guide who will unfold tales of specters, illicit activities, and sorcery that are bound to give you goosebumps. In this distinctive walking tour, there’s more to discover about Montreal - maybe even more than you bargained for.

  • Not recommended for children under 10
  • Our Traditional Ghost Walks will depart only when the minimum of four participants will have booked the visit. We will notify you the day of your visit at noon should your visit be canceled. You will then have the option to reschedule your tour at no additional cost or we will issue a full refund.
Location
Place Royale
The meeting point is at Place Royale which is located right across Pointe-à-Callière Museum. Place Royale is a mounted small public square surrounded by stairs. Simply go up the steps where your storyteller will meet you at the time of departure.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Paula_v
Sep 28, 2024
Fun Activity - Had a great time. Enjoyed the spooky tales from long ago. Our guide Marguerite was very entertaining. Would definitely take the tour again.
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Michael_s
Sep 25, 2024
Great history tour with some gory stories! - The tour guide - Lily - made the tour and the evening with excellent historical stories which traced the founding and development of Montreal based on true (some) and anecdotal tales of figures from Montreal’s past along with background information on some of the key buildings in old Montreal.
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Leslie_m
Sep 25, 2024
Great fun - Lily was so, so fun and knowledgeable. Such a fun way to tour the old part of Montreal. Great stories
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Ubob94521
Sep 24, 2024
Lots of Fun! - Our storyteller Alice was ‘in character’ and a fabulous guide. The length of the tour was perfect and she made sure that there were many places to sit while she told us the spooky tales. We highly recommend this tour!
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Jessica_h
Sep 23, 2024
Excellent historical and whimsical tour - Very fun and informative. We got a peak into the gory side of Montreal's history and Franklin (we are now permitted to call him Frank ;) ) was an excellent entertaining guide that kept us laughing and learning!
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Joannaro5442eo
Sep 20, 2024
Entertaining & Educational - Best Ghost Tour - This was the best ghost tour I've ever been to, one of the best tours in general. Our guide did a phenomenal job bringing humor and performance to the tour, which made it so much more engaging, entertaining, and memorable. The stories all incorporated elements of the time period, history, and culture, so I feel like I learned so much about iconic parts of the area while being entertained.
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Lisagu418xc
Sep 16, 2024
One of best ghost tours I’ve done! - Great tour, Alex was amazing. Very informative and appropriately ghastly! A little interesting history along with gruesomeness.
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Guernseygirl10
Sep 15, 2024
Fast funny and fascinating ! - wow ! Madame Morphine was a superbe storyteller .. Magnifique.. Energique … and spooktastic ! She’s not really a ghost is she ? devilishly hard to photograph ! Hmmmm I wonder … The tour was busy , bustling and took in lots of different historic sites of the old city with tales of dodgy doctors with a penchant for dissection , wandering nuns and sad tales of slaves coming to a very unfair and tragic end . The history of a city which is told the world over , of ambition , abuse of power and abject cruelty . Fascinating , funny and fast paced we seemed to race from one dark alley to another , dodging the throngs of tourists and getting highly entertained and educated for our efforts . Highly recommend this tour and in particular our wonderful storyteller .. Note the meeting place at ‘Place Royale ‘ is on the river side - just in case you are confused .
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Jacquelyn_a
Sep 12, 2024
Seniors enjoyed Old Montreal Walking Ghost TourSenior Citizens. - The Old Montreal Walikng Ghost Tour was a fun, exciting tour of a totally different perspective of “Old Town” Montreal which includes great historical information. It does involve a lot of walking which can provide an opportunity for exercise. The weather for our tour was perfect. I highly recommend it for all age adults.
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Lauren_r
Sep 16, 2024
Would not recommend - The stories were definitely a stretch, though they did the best they could with the limited fodder they had. We ended up leaving after 45 minutes.
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